End of Season Canning

 The Little Ones

The tiny apples or impaired ones of our year’s crop do not go into storage. They became apple sauce. Great for winter waffles.

First Frost

 And the Growing Season is Officially Done

Hello, November

 Blessed All Saints Day

From a fine ancient church in France, where the saints are remembered and the weathered, old, chipped saints are still treasured.

Warrior saints, who fought the good - and necessary - fight.

A treasure and treasured church, in France.

A couple of saints in Wittenberg. Some family went there for the Reformation Retreat this past weekend. 

In the Wittenberg market, with the historic Castle Church in the background. 

Winterizing

 In the Rain

We got the sensitive plants in the greenhouse today, before the first frost, expected tomorrow. 

Before

After. The trimming and all will come later. 

And we harvested squash. A good crop, but we could have used a couple more weeks. This is part of the crop. 

And we got these. We had thought we planted Schwarzwurzeln, and while these were certainly black, and they are roots, they were not the long skinny roots with a mild flavor we were expecting. And they had the wrong kind of leaves. These are short, plump, and taste like radishes. Better luck next year.

And one was red!? 

We had several oddities this year.

Autumn Card

 A Collaboration 

I make the drawing and punch the leaves from bright paper, and she gets it in the mail and finishes adding the leaves on the skirt. 

Very Pink

 More Dahlias

Autumn Florals

 White and Bright

More Harvest

 Almost Ready

Some of the rose hips are now in a honey-vinegar concoction, to which will be added ginger, for a winter tonic after it sits for some weeks. 

Drops

 After the Rain

Pretty Find

 Under the Leaves

This beauty has been growing behind the big leaves spilling out of a raised bed. We don’t know where that seed came from, but we like it. 

Hello, October

 Time for Fall Decor

Harvest Time

 Autumn Produce

Our Mirabelle tree finally produced this year. It was a good crop on a small tree. It likes being by the south masonry wall of the house. Besides being eaten fresh, they got frozen or added to canned mixed fruits. 

This is a sampling. There were many more.

The squash and pumpkins are still ripening  - all over the place. Tomatoes are daily ripening. Potatoes will be dug soon. We have been enjoying corn. Pears are done. Apple harvest will be a bit later. And we had a few grapes from our small new vines that replaced our big, beautiful old vine. 

Goodbye, sumner. Hello, fall. 

In the Park

 Venue for Baptism

The new little one in the family was baptized yesterday in an outdoor setting among close family. A grill followed on a lovely early fall day. 

Another blessing.

Blooms

 End of Season

And still beautiful.

More Deidesheim

 Family Reunion

I don’t post people pictures here, but we did have some gathering times. This is the town’s Catholic Church, in which grandparents were baptized, married, and where they worshipped.

Down this street is the chapel in which we had our family church service on Sunday morning. 

This is a very old ruined monastery, which has a restaurant, where we had a formal family dinner with relatives. 

On Sunday morning, we came here for our worship service.

While it was much too hot, the weekend went well, and we had a lovely reunion.